We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Radware DefensePro based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The features are powerful and better than F5."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the custom rules feature. This is because many of our customers require a lot of custom rules. Because it's a very customized project for our customers, I think they have the best of everything already."
"The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers."
"We are getting security for each and every API."
"I have contacted the support team of Akamai... I am happy with their responses and answers to my problems."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"All the solution's features are very good."
"The important features include automated protection and defense against many attacks, it's important that our networks are protected in the Radware cloud."
"The reporting is very good and provides us with a comprehensive description of where attacks are emanating from."
"It offers valuable insights into ongoing and past attacks, aiding in post-incident analysis and continuous improvement of our cybersecurity strategy."
"The product is very effective and performs well on devices."
"Radware DefensePro is one of the best solutions for on-premise protection."
"The product integrates well with Cisco."
"They have a hybrid model approach if a client wants to go that way."
"With the secure signature feature, the Radware DefensePro is a big assistance. It is a big help to our customers to improve their productivity and performance. The prompt response from the Radware team is definitely increasing in the new era."
"One area where Akamai can improve is the captcha part. Cloudflare provides a captcha if there are a certain number of threats. For example, I can assign that if there are 10 requests within a second from a single IP, it should send a captcha to the user. The user should fill in the captcha, and only after that, the user should be able to access our website. This captcha feature should be built into Bot Manager. I love this captcha feature of Cloudflare."
"It would be nice if Akamai Web Application Protector's price is lowered and made cheaper."
"Akamai needs to focus on quickly responding to risks, even those that may potentially be of zero threat..Maybe some of the documentation is a little confusing. They have a lot of different places where you can go to get information, and some of the information is quite out of date."
"A lot of piracy happens in India and other countries. If there is a product for protection from piracy, it would be great. For example, there are multiple hackers that hack your event, and there are some channels that pirate and publish the event on some other website. We protect our streaming through DRM and different technologies. We are also protecting the website, but hacking is still happening. If they can work on protecting from piracy, it would be great."
"There are some issues with pushing configurations across a network. It still takes about 20 minutes and that means to retract it's another 20 minutes."
"The performance of the cloud monitoring tool is low."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"This product would be improved if ongoing live monitoring with dashboards were added."
"There needs to be more reporting."
"The solution is a little more pricey than other options on the market."
"I would like to see more graphics within the dashboard. Right now, you are required to buy tools in order to have graphical representation for your monitoring."
"I had some trouble in the registration account prior to deployment, but it was fixed. They were not very fast or responsive, however. It took about one week to resolve the issue."
"Radware DefensePro requires a continuous learning process. Using this technology, we can improve our network. Based on the different attack mechanisms, we use Radware DefensePro to provide security for our clients' networks very effectively."
"They need to increase the limit of devices that we can manage."
"The dashboard could be updated."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 3rd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 27 reviews while Radware DefensePro is ranked 5th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Radware DefensePro is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware DefensePro writes "Regular signature update with good reporting and analytics". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas Radware DefensePro is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS, Fortinet FortiDDoS and Check Point DDoS Protector. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. Radware DefensePro report.
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